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[2] Design for the principal floor of a house, 1787, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 35/38
Purpose
[2] Design for the principal floor of a house, 1787, unexecuted
Aspect
Principal floor plan of a house with flanking links terminating in pavilions. The main house has a porte-cochere to the front, leading to a double-apsidal hall, followed by a principal and service stairs, and a saloon to the rear with external perron stairs. Rooms include a dining room, drawing room and octagonal dressing room for the client, as well as a library and bed chamber in the flanking links. The pavilions comprise a nursery and dressing room for Lady Hannay on one side, and an octagonal billiard room and upper floor to the kitchen on the other side, both with additional staircases
Scale
bar scale of 5/8 of an inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the Principal Story of / (in the hand of William Adam) Kirkdale in Galloway the Seat of Sir Samuel Hannay Bart / (in another hand) Kitchen / continued / Billiard room / Library / Sir Samuels / Dressing room / Dining room / Saloon / Hall / Drawing room / Anti room / or / Dressing room / Powdg / room / Bed Cham.r / Powd.g / room / Lady Hannays / Dress.g room / Nursery / Extends 282 feet with some room dimensions / (verso) 6
Signed and dated
- 1787
Rt Adam Archit.t 1787.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (506x308)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Watermark
W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 20
King, Volume 2, 2001, p. 127
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, Volume 2, 2001, p. 127
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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